1984
Born in Los Angeles, CA
Live and Work in Brooklyn, NY

Education
2004
Bachelor of Arts with Honors, University of California Santa Cruz
2013
Masters of Fine Art, Columbia University

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2017
We of Me, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2015
We of Me, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

Two Person Exhibitions
2014
Ivar, Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions
2017
Replacing Place!, Anytime Dept, Cincinnati , OH
Timeshare, Zaha Hadid Building, New York NY
Eat/ing Your Heart Out, CRUSH Curatorial, Amagansett, NY
2016
Two Spirits, Cooper Library, Bisbee, AZ
2015
Beware of the Holy Whore, curated by Jen DeNike, 191 Henry, New York, NY
2014
Greystone Manor Gala, LA>< Art, Los Angeles, CA
DAS Zwischen Raum Zeit, Pitch Projects, Milwaukee, WI
Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar, curated by Jen DeNike, Anat Egbi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Double Agency, curated by Jordan Rathus and Nick Paparone, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
2013
Mind the Gap, curated by Boris Kostadinov, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
Ora Serrata: The Boundary between the Retina and the Ciliary Body, curated by Sasha Lerman and Lea Cetera, chashama, New York, NY
Of Other Spaces, curated by Jaime Schwartz and Lisa Williams, Court Square Gallery, Long Island City, NY
DAS and Irini Miga: Stage for a Journey, ReMap, Athens, Greece
Just Light, curated by Jordan Rathus, Torrance Shipman Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Dead in August, curated by Meaghan Kent, Lilac Ship, New York, NY
Gnostic Trance, curated by Micki Pellerano, Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, curated by Fionn Meade, Fisher Landau Center for Art,
Queens, NY
Other Worlds Filmnacht, curated by John Silvis, Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg, Austria
Magical Thinking, organized by James Case-Leal and Ali Harrington, curated by Juliette Premmereur and Dana Liss, 177 Livingston, Brooklyn, NY
Two Spirits, Dance Film Association, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Other Worlds Filmnacht, curated by John Silvis, Kassel Museum, Vienna, Austria
2012
MFA First Year Exhibition, curated by Anna Craycroft, Wallach Galler, Columbia University, New York, NY
Outside Mediation, curated by Robin Cameron, Green Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2011
Teresa, curated by Lazaro Valiente, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
Macabre & Mysticism, curated by Conveyor Arts, Red Roots Gallery, New York, NY
The Show Must Go On, curated by Sophie Morner, Capricious Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Simple Truths, curated by Cat Jimenez, Edition One Hundred, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Flux Factory Auction, curated by Chen Tamir, Center 548, New York, NY
Instant Joy, curated by Andrew Garn, AM Richard Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Descry, Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA
Making Brooklyn Bloom, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY
Smallest Canvas, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
GENERATIONS, curated by Kat Griefen, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Brave Brooklyn, 30 Nassau, Brooklyn, NY
Two Bridges Trading, curated by Naomi Nevitt, New York, NY
Nefer/Nfr, Capricious Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Shake Outtttt, curated by Shaun Kessler and Olivia Wyatt, Queens, NY
Wish You Were Here 8, curated by Kat Grefien, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Expand the Room| 2009 Exhibition, curated by SPIN Magazine, New York, NY
12 Instances, Heist Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Nobody is Famous in NY, curated by Sophie Morner, Capricious, Brooklyn, NY
GENERATIONS, curated by Kat Grefien, AIR Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Fey, curated by Natalia Leite and Rachel Rosen, Glory Hole, Brooklyn, NY

Press
2017
“Artists Comb Through the Getty Center”, by Matt Stromberg for Hyperallergic
2016
"This Artist Run Curatorial Project Asks What Lies Beneath Our Impulses to Eat," by Dan Dao for Saveur
2015
“Can Brushing Your Hair by Art,” by Mackenzie Wagoner for Vogue
2013 "The Film Curator," Salon.com
2011 "Live-scored Film Screenings," Time Out New York
Culture Section "Molly Surno," NYLON
"Own this City," Time Out New York
"Reel Thing," New York Press
2010 "Above and Beyond," New Yorker
"A Vivid Afterlife," Wall Street Journal
"Cinema 16: Film and Music in Brooklyn," New York Times
"Cinema 16," LA Times
"Cinema 16," Flavorpill
"Eight Things that Will Keep you in the Know," Filmmaker Magazine
"Girl on Film," Elle Magazine Japan
"The DIY And Then Some Edition!," ArtFagCity
2009 "A Screen Grows in Bushwick," Interview Magazine
"Nail Art," NYLON
"Long Live Dead Polaroids," Dossier
"Damn Your Nails Look Good," Vice
2008 "Brooklyn's New Wave," Brooklyn Based

Awards and Residencies
2017 CRUSH Curatorial, Amagansett, NY
2015 Pioneer Works, New York, NY
2015 Recess, New York, NY
2015 Steeprock Arts, Washington, CT
2013 Kodak Film Sponsorship
2012 Residency, Center for Digital Arts, Tel Aviv
2010 Kodak Film Sponsorship
2009 Master Class, Creative Capital
2009 Brooklyn Arts Council DCA Grant, "The Smallest Canvas"
2008 “2 Pounds, 3 Ounces,” PDN World In Focus, Winner

Film Festivals
2011 Zero Film Festival, Film installation

Curatatorial
Ongoing Cinema 16, curating monthly silent film and music screenings
2010 Power and Presence, Photographs of Women by Theo Westenberger, AIR Gallery2
2008 Flavor of 1975, Hand Painted prints by Theo Westenberger, Bergamont Station
2008 Eat Records, private short film and animation screenings

Panels
2011 Alternative Film Practices, New York University
2011 Silverdocs, Documentary without a Cause
2011 New School, Sound & Image Panel Moderated by Joel Schlemowitz
2011 Americans for the Arts panel on Innovation and the Internet
2011 Speakeasy Series
2011 Art and Community Practice, New York University
2010 Brooklyn Arts Photo Panel, Chairperson